The course at Southampton saw a feature not often included in Southern Region race namely a banana gate but the Aldershot racers took this in their stride. As a result we came away with another big haul of medals. In the boys 7 to 8 group Harry Deighton won the gold medal while in the girl's equivalent Katie Standen won her first medal, taking home the bronze. Toby Deighton also won bronze in the boys 9 to 10 group while Phoebe Long won the silver medal in the race for girls of the same age. Moving on to the 11 to 12 group, William Wheeler won the bronze medal while in the girls group it was an Aldershot 1,2,3,4,5 with Hannah Bozier taking the gold medal, Boo Pickup the silver medal and Bella Hathway the bronze medal. Still with the girls, in the 13 to 14 group Ellen Hathway won the gold medal with Chelsea Hardaway winning the silver medal, in the 17 to 19 group Ella Slater won the silver medal and in the 30+ group Janet Long won the gold medal in her first ever race. Last but by no means least John Calvert won the silver medal in the final male group.
In the club team races the Under 11 team fought through to the final where they were narrowly beaten by the home team while the Over 11s team felt robbed of a place in the final by some dubious decisions. In a very close race the final racer on the opposing team false started anyway but to add insult to injury one of the last poles on our course was stuck in the matting and where it would have been reasonable to at least have called a re-run this was not done.
In the scratch team there was a gold medal for the team including Toby Deighton and Annie Usher and a silver medal for the team including Jack Bradford-Smith, Oliver Cassidy and Brian Davies.
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